Category: Romance
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Two for **: No Strings Attached / Love & Other Drugs
No Strings Attached – 2011 Directed by Ivan Reitman Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin…
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Life As We Know It is every romantic comedy as we know (and sometimes love) them
Life As We Know It – 2010 Directed by Greg Berlanti Starring Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Burns, Faizon Love Written by Ian Deitchman, Kristin Rusk Robinson There is a lot going on here, in this romantic comedy. The start is somewhat natural, given that the two leads have a meet-cute that…
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Tangled starts a new era of golden classics
Tangled – 2010 Directed by Nathan Grano, Byron Howard Starring the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Brad Garrett, Ron Perlman Written by Dan Fogelman, based on the story “Rapunzel” by The Brothers Grimm When I first heard about the Disney update of “Rapunzel” being the first classic redone digitally, like all the…
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How Do You Know when a movie is too long?
How Do You Know – 2010 Written and Directed by James L. Brooks Starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson When George Lucas made his horrible Star Wars prequels, many cynical people just assumed it was a money grab. While Lucas is acutely aware of the process in which profit is accrued, he…
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If you don’t count the special effects, Let Me In is a classic
Let Me In – 2010 Written and Directed by Matt Reeves Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elias Kotas, Richard Jenkins Let Me In early on has a scene so unsettling that, left unexplained, would have led me to think of it as a very different movie. A boy, aged 12, sits alone in his room…
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Morning Glory gives hope to romantic comedies
Morning Glory – 2010 Directed by Roger Michell Starring Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Patrick Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Ty Burrell, Matt Malloy, John Pankow Written by Aline Brosh McKenna When I first heard that Harrison Ford was going to be starring opposite Rachel McAdams in a romantic comedy, I just took it for granted…
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World doesn’t require an explanation
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – 2010 Directed by Edgar Wright Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Alfie Rackley, Ellen Wong, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons Screenplay by Edgar Wright, Michael Bacall based on the comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley The first best thing about Scott Pilgrim vs.…
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Twilight: Eclipse story is good, action better, head shots a little close
Twilight: Eclipse Director David Slade Starring Robert Pattison, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard, Billy Burke, Dakota Fanning, Ashley Greene, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellen Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone, Anna Kendrick Screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer There’s a point in Eclipse, the third movie in…
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It’s Complicated…and pretty nice, too
It’s Complicated Written and Directed by Nancy Meyers Starring – Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson, Mary Kay Place, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan There are so many ways this movie could have turned out so wrong in so many ways. As it is, it plays like kind of like…
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What do they sell over there?…Eat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love Director – Ryan Murphy Starring – Julia Roberts, Billy Crudup, James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Christine Hakim Screenplay by – Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt based on the story by Elisabeth Gilbert There are many times in the midst of watching Eat Pray Love that I feel myself wanting to…
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